English transcript

I quickly tried to pull up the standing orders and find this for myself, does it say that

the makeup of committees has to be what it was based on the election or is it not reflective

of the standings in the House of Commons?

The overwhelmingly long precedence of how this House has operated for decades, if not

the entire time, since 1867, has been that the composition of committees are arrived

at through negotiations to reflect the results of the ballot box in a general election.

So we are in unprecedented territory, never before has a Prime Minister fundamentally

tried to change the nature of the government that he was elected on from the people through

these kinds of backroom deals.

So we are in unprecedented territory and what we're saying today is let's uphold the tradition

that the committee makeup is reflective of the results of the ballot box, we are calling

on Liberals not to stack the deck, resist the temptation to be just like other Liberals

where they try to use power to gain more control and to have the ability to cover up.

So that's what we're calling on for today.